Can Science Explain Everything? [Spirituality & Religion]
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Science is based on mathematics and more fundamentally, logic. Formal logic, by its own admission, cannot derive everything. For logic and mathematics to function, they need a starting point, first principles, axioms, postulates, etc. These cannot be proven and are not proven, they fall outside of the realm of logic, mathematics, and science, but instead are their starting point. I've always thought this is the place where science and metaphysics connects nicely. I've always liked quotes like this:
"In the beginning, God said that the four dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric second rank tensor equals zero and there was light."
"In the beginning, God said that the four dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric second rank tensor equals zero and there was light."
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@DiscreetWriterMike What about the majority of EM radiation outside the visible part of the spectrum?
@Sharon it was just a quote I liked that at least to me shows that religion in general and science are not inherently incompatible. In this case, "light" would mean any photon / EM radiation. The sailent point of my post is the limitations of deductive logic. For the more mathematically inclined, I'd point to Godel's incompleteness theorem.